Recently, some press coverage of the Mandela Effect has been surprisingly open-minded and sometimes downright favorable.
But, at other times… Well, not so much.
For example, I almost liked this article about what makes something memorable… or forgettable.
Well, it looked favorable when – rushed – I’d skimmed it.
Then I reread it and… wow, clever phrasing, manipulating the context. For example, labeling it a “false memory” from the start. (See more at my post: The Mandela Effect: What Do We Really Remember?)
And then, writing that post – whew! – I stumbled onto this quirky paper, Fathoming the Mandela Effect: Deploying Reinforcement Learning to Untangle the Multiverse. That was fun to read.
But anyway, yes, I’ve decided to try putting the Mandela Effect website back online.
It’s still a work in progress, and – of course – it may fail.
First, we had to find hosting that could handle the ridiculously high traffic the site could attract.
Then, we needed a way to justify the high hosting costs that may become necessary.
(My related books aren’t exactly flying off the shelves, but I never expected them to. The only reason I published them was to make sure people have access to how the Mandela Effect topic started, and what people said at the beginning.)
For now, the website will have advertising; I’ll have no control over that content, but my hosting bills should remain manageable. That’s the important part.
This might work out. Or it might not. Fingers crossed!
P.S. These aren’t our kinds of memories, but if you’re using an LLM like ChatGPT, be aware of how memories may be injected, manipulated, and exploited. Here’s one article: Hacker plants false memory in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity.
P.P.S. Yes, I tried adding fresh articles and opening comments on the Mandela Effect site. After 30 days, with no sign of significant interest in updates or comments, I’m leaving the site online (for now, anyway), as an archival copy of the original site.